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Historical Event on 3/17/1959
Dalai Lama XIV flees from Tibet after Chinese military occupied Tibet.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 6/18/1946 | First Satyagraha movement was started for Goa liberation from the Portuguese. |
| 12/23/1995 | 400 people, mostly children and their parents, die in a fire that broke out during the Annual Day celebrations of DAV Public School. The fire was suspected to be caused due to electric short-circuit in Mandi Dabwali, Haryana. |
| 2/10/1897 | Sannidhanam Suryanarayana Sastry, educationist and writer, was born at Chiriwada, (A.P). |
| 2/5/1919 | Sitaram Kesri, veteran Congress leader, was born. |
| 11/19/1991 | Two national commissions on women set up. |
| 11/17/1994 | Dr. Harbhajan Singh, Punjabi poet, wins Saraswati Samman. |
| 9/6/1903 | Russia increases import duties on Indian and Ceylon tea in retaliation for British import policies in Moscow. |
| 9/11/1999 | India's Sachin Ratti won the men's singles title in the New Zealand International Badminton championship, defeating top seed and world No. 23 Rio Suryana of Australia in the final. |
| 5/7/1994 | Ustad Jahiruddin Dagar Nasir, famous classical singer of Dhrupad-Dhamar, passed away at the age of 62 in Bareilly. |
| 1/1/1874 | The first women magazine ""Bola Bodhini"" was published. |
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